Clarence Fountain Quotes

Yeah, it's complicated. It's hard to find a guy that really can sing and is blind. - Clarence Fountain

We were on the same bill as this other blind group, Jackson Harmony, from Mississippi, ... Well, the promoter decided to bill it as 'the blind boys of Alabama against the blind boys of Mississippi.' The crowd loved us, the name stuck, and things took off for us. - Clarence Fountain

We were blind, so everybody was dark to us. - Clarence Fountain

We have a message in store for you. We try to make you feel something that you have never felt before, and that's the spirit of God. - Clarence Fountain

We didn't come all the way up from Alabama to Indiana looking for Jesus; we brought him with us. - Clarence Fountain

We did find one that can do pretty good. But he's still not up to par because he can't sing background. He can do the front but not background. You have to be versatile. - Clarence Fountain

That play was a hit from jump street, ... That changed our world forever. - Clarence Fountain

So we started singing, and eventually we began to think we had something special. I thought we could sing as well as The Golden Gate Quartet, and if they could go out in the world and do it, well, so could we. - Clarence Fountain

Most of our teachers were white, and the songs that they taught us were white, so when we first started out singing, it was really more of a glee club. - Clarence Fountain

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